Inking-pad for hand-stamps



(No Model.)

H. HERPERS.

INKING PAD FOR HAND STAMPS.

No. 390.858. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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lNKlNG-PAD FOR HAND-STAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,858, dated October 9, 1838.

Application filed December 24, 1887. Serial No. 258.870.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HERPERS, of Newark, in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iuking-Pads for Hand- Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in inking-pads used for inking the type-'faces of hand-stanps; and the object of my invention is to provide a new and improved pad of this kind which can absorb and retain a large supply of ink and in which the ink on the surface does not becone so moist or fluid as to clog the type and produce blurred impressions.

My invention consistsin a markingpad con posed of a sheet of cork partially or entirely saturated with printing or marking iuk.

In the accompanying drawing a combined crosssectional and perspective view of my improved inking-pad for hand-stanps is shown.

The inking-pad A is composed of'a sheet of cork of greater or less thickness, which cork sheet is thoroughly or partially saturated with printing-nk, such as is usually used on pads for hand stamps. The cork has the property of absorhing the ink and retaining it in such a inanner that the surface of the pad appears to be perfectly dry; but when the type face of a hand-stamp is brought in contact with the face or top of the pad sufficientink adhcres to said type-face to produce a clear and distinct impression. The iuk never floats on the face of the eork pad, as it does on the felt, cotton, or other pads, especially during warm weather, or when the air is very hunid.

As my improved cork inking-pad at all times remains comparatively dry ou the surface, too much ink is never applied to the type-faces, which do not become clogged, and thus the impressions produced are not blurred and the ink appled on the sheet by the stamp cannot be smeared or wiped over the sheet, as might happen if too much ink had been transferred from the pad to the type face or the ink been too liquid. The surface of the cork is yielding and elastic, and does not injure the rubber type; butit is by no means as yielding as a felt or cotton pad. The type cannot be pressed into the cork face deeply, as into a felt or cotton cushion, and thus no ink is applied on the sides of the type, as is apt to oceur when using cotton or felt pads.

To protect the sheet of cork from being broken, the same is placed in a woodeu or metal easing, B, which can be provided with a cover to protect the surface of the pad from di-t and dust.

Having thus described my invcntion, I claim as new and desire 'to secure by Letters Pat ent- An inkingpad for hand-stamps composed of a sheet of cork partially or entirely saturated with printing iuk, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY HERPERS.

W'itnesses:`

WALTER J. KNIGHT, THOS. J. A. MONAGHAN, 

